Nice will host the One Ocean Science Congress organised by the CNRS and the Ifremer from June 4th to 6th 2025 - just before the 3rd United Nations Ocean Conference. Jean-Pierre Gattuso, an oceanographer and CNRS research professor, and François Houllier, president and director of the Ifremer, explain the main issues involved.

In a study published in the journal Cell on 19 September, an international research team led by scientists from CNRS 1 , the University of Arizona and Scripps Research in California has identified animal species likely to hav

A team of researchers from the CNRS and the Paris Institute of Planetary Physics 1 has developed an innovative imaging method that can probe the bowels of a volcano with unparalleled resolution and depth.

A scintillating aerogel enabling real-time measurements with excellent sensitivity to certain radioactive gases, essential to monitoring the proper functioning of nuclear power plants, has just been

A multi-medallist para-swimmer, France's national karate kata champion in 2022 and a lawyer specialising in sports and disability law, Mai-Anh Ngo will carry the Paralympic flame on 25 August.

Scientists have deciphered the activation pathway of bemnifosbuvir 1 , a drug candidate initially in development to treat hepatitis C virus (HCV).

As the 2024 Olympics in Paris have come to a close and the Paralympics are about to begin, the historian Jean-Paul Thuillier looks back at the origins of the games in Greco-Roman civilisation.

Photochromic molecules can store light energy, but could they also convert it into heat? That is the challenge recently met by scientists from the CNRS and ENS Paris-Saclay 1 2 . The team identified a mechanism by which these molecules release this energy in thermal form, and can subsequently be reused in multiple cycles of energy storage/conversion.

To facilitate the implementation of its environmental transition plan and provide ongoing support for this, the CNRS recently appointed a scientific officer for sustainable development and risks. Stéphane Guillot explains the challenges of his new role.

The COLIBRI ground-based telescope unveiled its first images at its inauguration on September 7, 2024 at the San Pedro Mártir National Astronomical Observatory, Mexico.

For nearly ten years, astronomers have been trying to demonstrate the existence of a massive object thought to be orbiting in the outer reaches of the Solar System.

Along with humans, birds are the only permanent bipeds in the animal kingdom to possess an extraordinary sense of balance.

Julia Pirotte, a photojournalist and resistance fighter, documented the first day of the Marseille uprising on 21 August, 1944, wielding her camera alongside the freedom fighters.

Forests cover a third of the world's land surface. Although they provide us with invaluable services, they are now under so much pressure that we are faced with our own contradictions between their sometimes conflicting roles as sanctuaries for biodiversity, or (over)logged sources of materials.